Category: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome May Be Driven by Remnants of Infection
Northwestern Scientists learn why the body may continue to respond to an invisible threat long after bacterial death. Symptoms that persist long after Lyme disease is treated are not uncommon — a 2022 study found that 14 percent of patients who were diagnosed and treated early with antibiotic therapy would still develop Post Treatment Lyme Disease (PTLD). Yet […]
May 14, 2025
A Potentially Life-Threatening Disease Caused by Ticks Is Expanding to New Parts of America
Smithsonian Magazine Babesiosis typically occurs in the Northeast and the Upper Midwest, but new research suggests rare cases are emerging in the mid-Atlantic region including Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. Babesiosis is a rare, tick-borne disease caused by a parasite that attacks the red blood cells and can lead to flu-like symptoms such as fever, body […]
May 14, 2025
A man died from a tick bite in Massachusetts. His family wants to prevent it from happening again.
CBS News The family of a Massachusetts man who died after a tick bite wants everyone to take ticks seriously and, if you get bitten by one, go see a doctor. Erin Boyce remembers the day her brother Kevin Boyce got sick after being bitten by a tick in April 2024. Kevin Boyce’s story “It […]
May 14, 2025
Cardiovascular Implications of Long COVID, Severe COVID: What to Know, How to Manage
MedScape As cases of long COVID — often defined as symptoms that weren’t present before persisting for 3 or more months after the infection — became more prevalent and alarming, researchers began to zero in on the commonly reported cardiovascular symptoms of fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain, and palpitations, among others. Long-COVID patients, much […]
May 14, 2025
Panama’s Malaria Outbreak Produces Two Fatalities
VAX Before Travel In 1904, the Isthmus of Panama reported that tropical diseases such as malaria led to the death of an estimated 12,000 workers during the Panama Canal project. Over 100 years later, the mosquito-transmitted malaria continues to impact the health of the Republic of Panama. On May 9, 2025, Panama’s Ministry of Health […]
May 14, 2025
The deadly riddle of blackwater fever: the search for answers over illness killing Uganda’s children
The Guardian A dangerous complication of malaria turns urine dark with blood – but only affects some young patients in rural areas and not others. Puzzled experts are trying to find out why. By the age of six, Babirye Zainab had already contracted malaria several times. Her grandmother did not see it as a big […]
May 14, 2025
Sierra Leone Reports More Than 2,000 Mpox Cases, 11 Deaths
TV 360 Nigeria Sierra Leone has recorded a total of 2,045 confirmed cases of mpox since the start of the year, with 11 reported deaths, according to a new report released by the country’s Ministry of Health. The latest figures, unveiled late Monday, include 165 new cases reported just on Sunday. At the beginning of […]
May 14, 2025
New Mexico health officials: ‘One of the most severe’ flu seasons in recent years
Source NM Mid-May marks the end of widespread influenza infections across the country, wrapping up a flu season New Mexico health officials described as “one of the most severe” in recent memory. Hospitalizations and infection rates from influenza ran significantly higher this year, New Mexico Department of Health Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Chad Smelser told Source […]
May 14, 2025
Multi-country outbreak of mpox, External situation report
WHO This is the 52nd situation report for the multi-country outbreak of mpox, which provides details on the global epidemiological situation for mpox with data as of 31 March 2025, including an update on the epidemiological situation for mpox in Africa, with data as of 4 May 2025, updates on imported cases of mpox due […]
May 14, 2025
Measles outbreak in North Dakota prompts local health officials to quarantine unvaccinated schoolchildren
CNN Measles cases continue to accumulate in the United States in what is already the second-worst year since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago. Now, a recent outbreak in one North Dakota county has led local health officials to quarantine nearly 200 unvaccinated students. North Dakota has reported nine measles cases this year, and a […]
May 14, 2025